Rodger Kamenetz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.
-- Rodger Kamenetz

#Reality #Nuts #Vision
A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.
-- Rodger Kamenetz

#Dream #Letters #Ignored
Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.
-- Rodger Kamenetz

#Dream #Splits #Rabbi
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.
-- Rodger Kamenetz

#Religious #Threatening #Priests
Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.
-- Rodger Kamenetz

#Dream #Intellectual #Wish
Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.
-- Rodger Kamenetz

#Dream #Buttons #Helping
Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.
-- Rodger Kamenetz

#Dream #Foundation
Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.
-- Rodger Kamenetz

#Dream #Father #Book
I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.
-- Rodger Kamenetz

#Thinking #Vocabulary #Intellectual

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
What do you do when you see a man masturbating at a salad baran actual salad shooterbut wait, I'm single, we're both at the salad bar, we have a lot in common. I like fresh produce, he likes to get fresh with produce. I like nuts on my salad, he likes to nut on his salad.
We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

Rodger Kamenetz famous quotes

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